Life Sayings and Quotes

Life is an adventure filled with unexpected highs and lows. While there isn't a single handbook to help you navigate life's ups and downs, wisdom passed through the ages sure helps. Below you'll find a collection of the finest inspirational, thoughtful, and humorous life quotes we could find.

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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

Kevin Spacey

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Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Dennis P. Kimbro

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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It is not the length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

Kevin Kruse

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

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The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

Mary Engelbreit

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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It's not about how hard you can hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Rocky Balboa

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Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William Butler Yeats

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Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.

Sam Levenson

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In youth we learn, in age we understand.

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

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Never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Jonathan Edwards

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

H.T. Leslie

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Most important thing in life ... is learning how to fall.

Jeannette Walls

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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Ted Turner

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

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No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time in the office